But Mrs Parks was well aware that the journey she had started that day was unfinished. This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “Rosa Parks died on ...

Rosa Parks, the black woman whose 1955 protest action in Alabama marked the start of the modern US civil rights movement, has died at the age of 92. Mrs Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white ...

My favorite image of Rosa Parks, who died Monday at the age ... that ended up desegregating the buses. So why is Parks’ obituary on the front page of the New York Times? Why did the Montgomery ...

Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a ... When she died in 2005, the word “quiet” was used in most of her obituaries and eulogies. We have grown comfortable with the ...

The Equal Justice Initiative has unveiled a new statue honoring Rosa Parks — the first in a series of statues that will pay homage to icons of the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery.